I've fulminated before about that most annoying affliction of cyberlife, the spammer (see Calling All Spammers - 19/08/03) and I'm now somewhat miffed to discover a new problem from these online lowlives.
Across the half a dozen e-mail accounts used for various purposes by myself and my wife, the average day sees a harvest of anywhere up to 100 spams. This does annoy me, but I use an extemely good - and free - spam filtering tool called Spampal which deals very effectively with this rubbish.
Yesterday, though, the status quo was somwewhat disrupted. It's not that I received any more than usual, but half a dozen of yesterday's crop of "unmissable offers" had an assortment of viruses attached. I do keep my antivirus scanner fully up to date and if this sort of thing becomes common, I'd advise everybody else to do the same.